prink

1. 1.

   dress very carefully and in a finicky manner

   Broaderdress
2. 2.

   put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

   “She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”

   “The young girls were all fancied up for the party”

   Synonymsoverdressdress upfig outfig updeck upgussy upfancy uptrick updeck outtrick outattireget uprig outtog up

   Broaderdress

   Narrowerpreenpranktart upenrobebedizen

Other forms of prink

past tense

prinked·

present participle

prinking·

third person

prinks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prink

What does prink mean?

prink means "dress very carefully and in a finicky manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prink?

prink has 1 syllable: prink.

What is another word for prink?

Close synonyms include overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prink a common word?

prink is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.